Associate Professor of English at SMU

Bio

Lisa Siraganian is the Ruth Collins Althsuler Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX). She is also the author of Modernism’s Other Work: The Art Object’s Political Life (New York: Oxford UP, 2012), shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize (2013). Her essays have appeared in Law and Literature, American Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. She was awarded an ACLS Fellowship to complete her second book, “Corporate Form: Personhood, Politics, and Meaning in Legal and Literary Modernism,” and an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship for a year of advanced course work in legal history and philosophy at Harvard University.